Comment

No argument on that point, we’re pretty docile through years of bread and circus, and complacency conditioning propaganda¹. George Floyd protests could have been the outrage and protesting in Paris over a cheese manufactured getting wrongly fined by the government, but here it took mandatory lockdowns with everyone out of work and ruin-of-civilization pandemic fears.

I get it. Wish I could personally change it, but the most I can do is vote, and call and email my representatives. If everyone did that every issue, we’d have a different country. Unfortunately see point ¹

source

Sort:hotnew top

Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In places like the UK, I assume people have home defense weapons in the form of knives, billy clubs, pepper spray, etc

Jesus fucking Christ 😂

source
- Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No?
  
  You’ve never been the victim of a home invasion or know someone that has?
  
  Do you live in privileged suburbs or is the UK just a magical place with no home invasions?
  
  Or is it just a matter of not caring if someone does?
  
  source
  - Enoril@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You don’t get it… Why we should be afraid of someone breaking our house?
    
    Thiefs don’t carry weapons. If they were arrested with deadly weapons (including knife), that would add decade of prison time for them. It’s being like that since centuries…
    
    Also: they breaks home when we are not home.
    
    So weapons are useless. You are not more safe with them. It’s just a way to escalate a dangerous situation to a deadly situation.
    
    source
  - Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    No?
    
    No! 😂 I knew a dealer once that kept a 32mm spanner in case someone tried to steal his dope, but that was in a rough area
    
    Christ on a bike, imagine thinking that’s normal!
    
    source